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‘White people shouldn’t mess with it’: Native American church laments psychedelic cactus shortage

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‘White people shouldn’t mess with it’: Native American church laments psychedelic cactus shortage



Western ‘psychedelic renaissance’ is partly to blame for dwindling supplies of peyote, which produces mescalineAldous Huxley wrote about the spiritual visions he had while taking the drug mescaline in The Doors of Perception, while Hunter S Thompson wrote of driving at 100mph while under the influence of it in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.But now a growing number of western spiritual seekers dabbling in psychedelics are accused of causing a shortage of the plant that produces mescaline. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/11/white-people-shouldnt-mess-with-it-native-american-church-laments-psychedelic-cactus-shortage

Author : Edward Helmore

Publish date : 2025-01-11 14:11:00

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